promutuor

Forms

prōmūtuor (present infinitive prōmūtuārī, perfect active prōmūtuātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin prōmūtuum (“a loan made in advance”), with the deponent ending -or.^[1] The TLL prefers to derive it from the adjective prōmūtuus (“lent in advance”) rather than from prō- and mūtuō (“to borrow”).^[2]

Earliest recorded meaning

The word is known only from late sources: the bilingual glossary of Philoxenus, which gives it as the equivalent of Ancient Greek προδανείζομαι (prodaneízomai),^[3][4][5] and an appendix to the law code of the Visigoths, where an active form says that someone is to give back what another had lent him in advance.^[2]

Semantic evolution

The dictionaries render it differently: Lewis & Short as “to be lent beforehand”,^[3] Gaffiot as “to borrow in advance”,^[4] and Wiktionary as “to lend in advance”.^[1] The TLL takes it to mean the same as making a loan in advance, and records both the deponent and an active form prōmūtuō.^[2]

Meanings

Verb

1. (Late Latin) To lend in advance, make an advance loan.^[2][1]
2. (glossaries) To borrow in advance; to be lent beforehand.^[4][3]

Usage notes

The TLL records the form both as a deponent prōmūtuor and as an active prōmūtuō.^[2]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b c Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ a b c Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
5. ^ Goetz, Georg (1888–1923), Corpus glossariorum Latinorum, Leipzig: Teubner; vols. VI–VII Thesaurus glossarum emendatarum, digital ed. CGLO, Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften